The Goodness of God

Goodness, in the Scriptural sense of the term, includes benevolence,
love, mercy, and grace. By benevolence is meant the disposition to
promote happiness; all sensitive creatures are its objects. Love
includes complacency, desire, and delight, and has rational beings for
its objects. Mercy is kindness exercised towards the miserable, and
includes pity, compassion, forbearance, and gentleness, which the
Scriptures so abundantly ascribe to God. Grace is love exercised
towards the unworthy. The love of a holy God to sinners is the most
mysterious attribute of the divine nature. The manifestation of this
attribute for the admiration and beatification of all intelligent
creatures, is declared to be the special design of redemption. God
saves sinners, we are told, "That in the ages to come He might show
the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us, through
Christ Jesus." (Eph. ii. 7.) This is the burden of that Epistle.


As all the modifications of goodness above mentioned are found even in
our dilapidated nature, and commend themselves to our moral
approbation, we know they must exist in God without measure and
without end. In him they are infinite, eternal, and immutable. (Hodge v 1 p 427)

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1. Pastor Levy preached at 4th this morning on Enoch (Genesis 5:24, "And Enoch walked with God"). References to Enoch in the Bible
   
2. Roger is working at Wells Fargo today but we hope to see him at dinner
   
3. Brother came by an we watched the Seattle / Chicago game
   
4. Kathee is still working on employee reviews
   
5. Not so cold ... 20 degrees